Cohen's Swan Lake #2

Sasha Cohen officially has the worst Long Program of the season. Her Wagner version of Swan Lake is her worst program every since her burst onto the scene in 2000. The program is absolutely horrid.

The music cuts are numerous and chaotic, vintage Wagner. There is even less choreography and transitionss, so now it is almost zero. Wagner has done it again. She's drained all the Swan Lake and turned it into a horribley generic piece of trash. That program is such an embarassment to Cohen. She's worthy of much more (and I'm not even a fan).

Cohen should drop Wagner as a choreography fast. I'm going to have nightmares about that atrocity for a long time.
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It's shocking...

How this program has deteriorated from the beginning of the season - starting out with such beauty, excitement, interest in the spins and steps, and wonderful flow and focus, and ending up a muddled mess of basically nothing.

I have to agree. I thought "Swan Lake" was a wonderfully intricate and beautiful program during the Grand Prix and even at Nationals....this version was severely gutted and surprisingly bland. I hope this isn't what Robin has in mind for next season.

Pegy or Dick (I think) said that Robin simplified the program so that Sasha wouldn't have to think so much and would be less likely to make mistakes. They made it sound like she had skating ADD. IMO they could have worded it a little better.

Wasn't crazy about the changes either...

But I'm willing to give this a little time before "deciding" (like my opinion matters LOL) that Sasha/Robin aren't a good mix. Sasha medalled for the first time this year. Sasha stayed on her feet this year. Those are definitely improvements.

I thought the season starter of Swan Lake was much more exciting. But Sasha on her feet is very important at this stage of the game. It will be interesting to see what evolves next year after Robin and Sasha have the full off season to work together, and what programs come about.

ITA about this version of Swan Lake not being nearly as good as the one TT choreographed. It was extremely watered down but at least Sasha stayed on her feet. I hope that Robin isn't going to water Sasha down to another Sarah Hughes.

However I thought TT did a wonderful job with Arakawa. She had a wonderful program.

I thought it was interesting how Dick said that TT "gave up on Sasha Cohen" while she was sitting in Kiss and Cry with Arakawa.

How can you say she stayed on her feet? She had an obvious fall an a jump attempt and a wonky landing that caused her to skip a planned combo.

I think Robin's gotta work on Sasha's mental game. Based her not being able to skate a 'watered down' Swan Lake, it's obviously not that there's too much for her to concentrate on. The program prior to World's was much more complex with the same number of bobbles as the lP at World's.

I still think that Sasha's thinking too much about winning during the LP and that distracts her. If she concentrated on just skating well, she'd probably pull it off.